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Today I had to read some data from different OLAP cubes and show this information in our application. This could be accomplished using ADOMD.NET client library, which is the multidimensional equivalent to the ADO.NET libraries. This library provides a set of classes (Connections, Commands and Readers) that allows developers to connect, query and get data … Continue reading →

Overview In these times of APIs-everywhere, it may sound like an anachronism the use SFTP to connect to a remote server and get a list of files for exchanging information, but in the financial world (sadly) it’s more common than you think. In my current project I’ve to connect to a remote server via Secure … Continue reading →

Imagine you have a table with millions of rows. It’s not a good idea showing all these data in a grid or similar, and it doesn’t matter you’re developing a web or desktop application… It’s not a good idea at all. In these cases we should use conditional filters applied in the data source (usually … Continue reading →

Edit (04/16/2014): Added a new function called GetBitmapFromFolderPath, which returns the associated icon from the path to a Folder (or drive!). Sometimes we are required to show a list of files with their associated icons. This task sounds quite easy, and in fact it is… Except if you have to deal with files in network paths or you … Continue reading →